[regawdless]

New PS Blog entry:

Early look at the user experience for PlayStation VR2

Check out the new see-through view and broadcasting option for PS VR2.

blog.playstation.com

See-Through View
With PS VR2, you can see your surroundings while wearing the headset with our new see-through feature. It comes in handy when you want to easily check where the PS VR2 Sense controllers are in your room without taking the headset off. Thanks to PS VR2's embedded front cameras, users can press the function button on the headset, or use the Card in the Control Center, to switch between viewing your surroundings, or viewing the content on PS VR2. The Card in the Control Center also gives quick access to other PS VR2 settings, such as adjusting your play area.

Broadcast Yourself While Playing
A new broadcast feature for PS VR2 will allow you to film yourself while playing, by connecting a PS5 HD Camera to the console. It's a great way to show your movements and reactions during a boss battle and share your reactions with your fellow gamers as it happens!

Interesting blog post, worth reading.

 

[CloudNull]

This is what will make me buy a PS5.

 

[Grinchy]

This thing is going to be so fucking cool. I just hope they're securing lots of high-end software for it.

 

[kingpotato]

Would it be unreasonable to hope that they find a way to port all psvr1 content so it's at least playable? Someone had previously told me they that would be a stretch.

 

[Grinchy]

Would it be unreasonable to hope that they find a way to port all psvr1 content so it's at least playable? Someone had previously told me they that would be a stretch.

I'd love to see it. But I'm not hopeful. And I don't know anything technical to see why but it's just a guess based on the janky coding needed to track the colored lights and turn it into 3D positional data that PSVR1 had.

Just can't wrap my head around that having some perfect and automatic translation to the new system. If it needs a patch, just imagine how few developers will bother, considering how low budget most of the VR library is. But damn I really hope we find out it's totally backwards compatible.

 

[Arkam]

Looking forward to using this to watch Blu Ray movies. I sure hope Sony provides a "movie theater" app.

 

[Dacon]

Man this is some good shit. It'll make its way to the PC VR market soon enough hopefully.

Hopefully they can put an end to the soyggotry of having RE4 locked to facebook's garbage ecosystem.

 

[regawdless]

Looking forward to using this to watch Blu Ray movies. I sure hope Sony provides a "movie theater" app.

From the blog post:

VR Mode and Cinematic Mode​

In VR Mode, players can enjoy VR game content in a 360 view in a virtual environment. Content will be displayed in 4000 x 2040 HDR video format (2000 x 2040 per eye) with 90Hz/120Hz frame rate.

In Cinematic Mode, players can view the PS5 system and UI and all non-VR game and media content on a virtual cinema screen. Content in Cinematic Mode will be displayed in 1920×1080 HDR video format with 24/60Hz and also 120Hz frame rate.

I'm sure there'll be a cinema environment of sorts. Would be surprised if not.